AUCKLAND, (APP/AFP) – The protracted battle to have Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom face video piracy charges in the United States broke new ground Wednesday with live-streaming of his appeal against extradition. Dotcom won approval to live-stream his bid to avoid leaving New Zealand after successfully arguing that global interest required more than standard brief television […]
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Dotcom’s battle to avoid US trial goes live
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Singapore urges tests for pregnant women with Zika signs
SINGAPORE, Aug 31, (APP/AFP) – Singapore urged all pregnant women showing symptoms of fever or rashes to have themselves tested for the Zika virus Wednesday after the number of cases in the city-state soared to 82. Environment agency workers stepped up efforts to eradicate mosquitoes that spread the disease, expanding a fumigation campaign centred on […]
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G20 to go long on rhetoric, short on economic policy: experts
BEIJING, (APP/AFP) – G20 leaders will meet in China this weekend in a climate of economic uncertainty and sluggish global growth — but the absence of an urgent crisis means the forum will be short on breakthroughs, analysts say. Eight years after the first G20 summit in Washington, when countries coordinated a response to the […]
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Obama to guest-edit issue of Wired magazine
WASHINGTON, Aug 30, (APP/AFP) – Is President Barack Obama already thinking about his next job? In the coming months, he will guest-edit an issue of tech-focused Wired magazine. It is the first time a sitting president has guest-edited a magazine, the publication said Tuesday, announcing that Obama’s November issue would be centered around the theme […]
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Greece still needs help to face refugee crisis
ATHENS, (APP/Anatolia): The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi speaking recently during his second visit in less than a year to Greece as the European country struggles with its chronic economic problems and an unprecedented wave of migration said that “The challenges are very serious, and we need to address them together.” The […]
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Romania PM to become first EU leader to visit quake-hit Italy
BUCHAREST, (APP/AFP): Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos on Tuesday will become the first European Union leader to visit Italy since last week’s earthquake, which left nearly 300 people dead including 11 Romanians. Last Wednesday’s quake struck a string of mountain villages in a remote area straddling the central Umbria, Marche and Lazio regions. Ciolos will […]